Mary Kaiser

Mary Agnes Kaiser (June 11, 1948 – July 10, 2011) was an American chemist. She worked at E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, where she was the first woman promoted to Senior Research Fellow. A woman scientist of distinction,[1] she was internationally known for her work in environmental analytical chemistry.[2]

Early life and education

Kaiser was born in Pittston, Pennsylvania on June 11, 1948, to Fredolin Kaiser and Agnes Regina Searfoss Kaiser [3] and grew up in Exeter, Pennsylvania.[4] She attended Wilkes College for her Bachelor's degree in chemistry, where she graduated in 1970.[4] She received her Master's degree from Saint Joseph's University in 1972, and she completed her PhD in Chemistry at Villanova University in 1976.[5] Subsequently, she spent a year as a Graham Perdue Fellow at the University of Georgia, where she worked with Professor Lockhart Burgess (Buck) Rogers.

Career and research

In 1977, Kaiser began working for DuPont, where she was the first woman to be promoted to the level of Senior Research Fellow.[4] Kaiser was an active member of the American Chemical Society, the Chromatography Forum of the Delaware Valley, the Eastern Analytical Symposium, and the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies.[4] In 1985, she was the second woman ever elected Chair of the American Chemical Society's Division of Analytical Chemistry.[4] She is the only person to have served as the President of the Eastern Analytical Symposium and as Chair of the Governing Board of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies. For her work in environmental chemistry at the DuPont Company, she became internationally known for the analysis of fluorine compounds in the environment.

Publications

In 1982 Kaiser and Professor Robert L. Grob published Environmental Problem Solving Using Gas Chromatography.[6] The book became a best-seller within the field.[4]

Personal life

Kaiser married Professor Cecil R. Dybowski on May 12, 1979, at Villanova Chapel at Villanova University. Kaiser and Dybowski had a daughter, Marta M. Dybowski, Esquire, born in 1987. Kaiser died on July 10, 2011, in Newark, Delaware.[7]

Awards
  • 2009, ACS Delaware Section Award for "conspicuous scientific achievement"[8]
  • 2004, Award for distinguished service in the advancement of analytical chemistry, ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry[9]
  • Villanova University Founders Award[10]
  • Chromatography Forum of the Delaware Valley Award[10]

References
  1. Rossiter, Margaret (2012). Women Scientists in America. ; Forging a New World since 1972. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 147. ISBN 1421403633. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  2. "Mary A. Kaiser". Chromatography Forum of Delaware Valley. 2007. Archived from the original on 25 March 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  3. Henderson, Andrea Kovacs, ed. (2010). "Kaiser, Mary Agnes". American Men & Women of Science: A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences. 4 (28 ed.). Detroit: Gale. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  4. "Obituaries". Newark Post. 21 Jul 2011. Retrieved 24 Aug 2016.
  5. Ainsworth, Susan J. "Mary Agnes Kaiser | Chemical & Engineering News". cen.acs.org. Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  6. Kaiser, Mary (1982). Environmental Problem Solving Using Gas Chromatography. Amsterdam: Elsevier. ISBN 0-444-42065-7.
  7. "Mary Agnes Kaiser". The News Journal. Retrieved July 13, 2011.
  8. Wang, Linda (March 23, 2009). "Mary Kaiser Wins Delaware Section Award". Chemical & Engineering News. 87 (12): 50. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  9. "Division Awards Program". ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  10. "October Meeting Notice". The Chromatography Forum of Delaware Valley. Archived from the original on 7 January 2009. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
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